Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, July 31, 1873, Image 2
f (rap* anil darts.
The Shah of Persia has three hundred
and sixty children.
By a recent census, the total population
of Augusta, Geo., is put down at 19,891. Of
this number 11,151 are whites, and 8,740
colored.
For your own and your children's sake,
learn to speak gently. They will remember
that tone when you are under the turf. So
they will remember a harsh or angry tone.
Iowa farmers complain of a scarcity
of laborers. Three dollars a day will not
bring them help enough to attend to their
crops. And yet the cities are full of idlers.
A gentleman who has been attacked
occasionly for twenty years with cramp colic,
says two pills of gum camphor swallowed
will give relief in twenty minutes.
The Catholic farmers of the West are
organizing granges of their own, to cooperate
with the original granges. This course is
taken because Catholics cannot join any
secret society.
A Memphis girl was married the other
day, aud immediately sold her piano, bought
her a sewing machine, and made her husband
a suit of clothes and herself two calico dresses,
and now fourteen young men are seeking the
hand of her unmarried sister.
England raised 16,000,000 bushels of
wheat a century ago?now 100,000,000 bushels
a year. How came the increase is suggested
in part by the fact that since 1837, she
has imported over $150,000,000, of bones as
fertilizers.
The postmaster-general intends, at the
end of the present calendar year,to furnish to
Congress a statement showing the results of
the repeal of the franking privilege and its
effects upon the revenue of the postoffice department.
It is said that the department will
be quite near self-sustaining on this account.
Blind Tom, the celebrated negro prodigy,
has settled near Warrentoo, Ya., on a
farm which belongs to General Bethune, formerly
of Columbus, Ga. Tom was a slave of
the General, who brought him up and took
special pains in his musical training. Tom's
father is living near Columbus.
Some one asked Col. Thomas C. Howard,
of Georgia, the other day, if he thought
a certain politician of that State would steal.
"Steal!"said he; "why, by jove,if he was
paralyzed and hamstrung I wouldn't trust
him by himself in the middle of the desert of
Sahara with the biggest anchor of the Great
Eastern. Steal! I should think he would !"
The length of the East River Bridge,
connecting New York and Brooklyn, will be
five thousand eight hundred aud sixty-two
feet, of which three thousand four hundred
and fifty-six feet will be suspended. This is
seven times the length of Niagara Suspension
Bridge. The towers will rise two hundred
and sixty-eight feet above high water mark,
eighteen leet higher than xrinity spire.
The plates for the new fivedollar national
bank note have been completed at the
Bureau of Engraving and Priuting of the
Treasury Department, and the work of printing
the new issue will be commenced in a
week or ten days, though they will not be
ready for circulation for a month or six weeks.
The new note will be one of the handsomest
ever issued by the Government, its general
appearance being far superior to the old one.
It is stated that the Congressional Committee
on transportation have issued a circular
to the State Granges of Husbandry throughout
the country, asking them to appoint delegates
to meet the committee and furnish information
on a subject which they are investigating,
and present the views of farmers of different
States in regard to defects, abuses and
grievances alleged to exist under the present
system of transportation.
The fall importations are beginning to
arrive at New York. The dry goods entries
last week, showed a marked increase. The
total is $2,256,767, an increase of $400,000
compared with that of the week previous.
Importers and jobbers alike anticipate a brisk
buisness in about a month from date. At
present it may be said stagnation reigns supreme.
The other merchandise imports for
the week at New York, are estimated at 84,175,000?making,
with the dry goods, a total
of SO,421,707.
The Belgian Government has recently
ordered securely locked letter boxes to be
placed in all the insane asylums of the country,
public or private, in positions where they
will be easily accessible to all the inmates.
They are designed to allow complaints and
suggestions to be made to the authorities in a
way independent of the officers or attendants.
The complaints are investigated, and if any
one asserts that he is sane, he is ordered to be
examined by medical experts.
Joaquin Miller relates a story horrible
enough to satisfy the most ardent lover of
sensation horrors. It is about a mining camp
in a lonley district in California, where the
scurvy hroke out. They had no way of
treating the afflicted ones, when one of the
miners happened to remember a cure he had
formerly heard called the "earth cure." So
they dug six deep pits in the shadow of a
huge pine, and buried the patients up to the
chin, having first taken off their clothes. The
earth was shoveled back, closely patted down
about them, and the six heads, in the moonlight,
had a ghastly look, "like men rising in
resurrection to meet the judgment." The
buried men, like all hard-working miners,
soon dozed off into a deep, stupor-like sleep.
Their companions, who were watching them,
grew dozy, and crawled off to their beds and
slept soundly till morning, when they went to
sec how their companions were getting on.
They fouud that the wolves had been down
and eaten off every one of the six heads level
with the ground.
The movement looking toward the formation
of a new State out of North Mississippi,
West Tennessee and Western Kentucky is
being discussed with considerable animation
by the newspapers published in the section interested.
A convention is to be held at Jackson
on the 29th instant, when delegates are to
be present from every city, town and civil
district within the limits of the proposed new
State. The general sentiment seenis to be in
favor of the movement. The negro pressure
is the cause of this movement Despairing of
retting relief from the despotism under which
tlicy are groaning in any other manner, the
whites are about to seek it in the proposed
separation. It is a thing only to be contemplated
as a last resort. If such a movement
once begins, it will extend beyond Mississippi.
The same principle of segregation would lead
to a change in the structure of the commonwealths
of Alabama, Florida and Louisiana.
It would result in giving up forever to the negroes
the finest portions of the South, and establishing
purely black commonwealths. It
would be a great relief to the white people to
escape from negro rule, but it is a grave problem?that
of surrendering the best portion of
the South to the black race. We are not yet
prepared to admit that the intelligent white
masses of the States referred to will not be
able, finally, to surmount all difficulties, if
they are wise, discreet, watchful, patient and
persevering. They should not give up too
soon.?Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel.
The destruction of human lives in India,
by wild animals, has become so appalling that
at last the English Parliament is seriously
debating different plans to remedy the evil.
The statements made by Lord Ettric, who
has spent much of his time in India, almost
transcend belief, and read like romances of the
jungle and wilderness. In Lower Bengal
alone, no less than 13,400 persons are known
to have been killed by wild beasts in the six
years immediately preceding 1870, and for
the entire peninsula it is estimated that 10,800
persons are killed annually. Captain
Rogers, of the Bengal service, recently read a
paper before the English Social Science Asso
ciation, in which he stated that, in 1869, on<
tigress stopped the traffic on a public roac
for many weeks, and was known to hav<
I
i killed 127 people; and, in Nayduka, a tiger,
| in 1867, 1868 and 1869, killed, respectively,
twenty-seven, thirty-four and forty-seven peo[
| pie. It would attack a party and kill four or
five at a time. Once it killed a father, a
i mother and three children, and the week be
fore it was shot it killed seven people. It is
, stated there are shikarries, or hunters, whose
business it is to kill these animals, and who
j receive rewards for doing so, but they have no
|: desire to kill off all of them and thus cut off
j their source of living. The English Govj
eminent now proposes to enroll a body of men
I for this purpose, and to make a systematic
slaughter of the tigers, wolves, panthers, leopards
and hyenas, until they are exterminated.
j$he Horkvirie inquirer.
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The Court of Common Pleas will conj
vene at Lancaster on Monday next.
? The indebtedness of Lancaster county is
reported to be 88,713.60.
? Hogs are dying rapidly in Orangeburg
from cholera.
? A peculiar form of sore mouth and throat
affection is prevailing to a considerable extent
in Columbia.
?The proprietor of the Columbia Hotel
has reduced the price of boarding from four
to three dollars per day.
? The Granges of Union county have a general
meeting at Union Courthouse on the 2d
of August.
? District-Attorney D. T. Corbin and exGovernor
Scott have gene North, to remain
for several months.
? A. B. Hawn, a Tennesseean, engaged iu
mercantile pursuits in Chester, died iu that
town recently of consumption.
. 1 1 r\pfC\ o r AA 1
? ftince UCtODer 10/Z, o,ouo persons imve
been vaccinated by the city vaccinator of
Charleston.
? Professor James H. Carlisle is lecturing
to the Winnsboro people upon the early history
of that town.
? Daily trains are now running on the
Air-line Railroad between Charlotte and
Greenville. They pass at King's Mountain.
? Watermelons are so abundant in Columbia,
that those weighing from twenty to forI
ty pounds are dull of sale at from ten to
twenty cents each.
? Letters received in Columbia, on Saturday
last, announce the completion of the survey
of the Chester and Cheraw Railroad to
Oro, in Chesterfield county.
? Mr. J. M. Davis, of Abbeville, has in vented
a fire extinguisher which uses water only,
and which is said to be much more effective
than any instrument of the kind yet invented.
? It is rumored that C. II. Baldwin, of Coi
lumbia, is to bo appointed Assistant United
j States Treasurer at Charleston, to supercede
J J. D. Geddings, the incumbent.
j ?Wm. McCaslan, of Long Cane section,
j Abbeville county, has a well on his place 500
j feet deep. It is the only artesian well in the
j State outside of Charleston.
I ? In the neighborhood of Landsford, ChesI
ter county, in the last three months, four per!
sons have died who have each passed the allotted
three score and ten years.
! ? The Chester Reporter states that the town
bell is rung every night at ten o'clock to give
notice that the police are about to retire for
! the night, and to notify the citizens to look
' out for themselves.
| ? Mr. Wills Rogers, formerly a resident of
I Yorkville, and whose death, in New York,
: was recently announced, has made his appear!
ance at the office of the American Newspaper
Reporter, in New York, and denied the
j story.
; ? Mr. W. N. Ransom, of Magnolia, Abbeville
county, has seventy-three acres planted
in cotton that will make a bale to the acre,
and fifty-eight acres in corn that will make
from sixty to one hundred bushels per acre,
j ?A meeting was held at Mariou last week
; in the interest of theCherawand Little River
Railroad, and was addressed by Capt. T. C.
Dunn, J. T. Walsh, Esq., Col. J. H. Hudson,
' Gen. W. H. Harllee and Col. W. S. Mullins.
; ? The Union Times, says: "It is said that
the proprietor of the Glenn Springs hotel does
not take a newspaper, nor keep a cow, aud
plows his land with a 'little red bull.' That
must be a delightful summer retreat. No
| news, no milk, and only a 'little red bull'
for a horse!"
? Secoud-lieutenant M. Frank Gallagher,
I who was recently tried before a general court
martial at Columbia for killing John McAneely,
a discharged soldier, in Spartanburg,
1 on the 2nd of May last, has been dismissed
the service and the sentence has been approved
by the President. The civil authorities
will take cognizance of the murder, the army
trial being only on the charge of conduct unj
becoming an officer and a gentleman.
"i it* _p or.il.
j ? JLfte oeauiorc nepuoiican ui me m
says: "The fact is no longer to be disguised
that the caterpillar is upon us. Already we
hear of their being on John's, Wadmalaw,
^ St. Helena and Paris Islands, aud we have
no doubt that they are to be found on all the
: | Islands and in every cotton field on the coast.
', Coming thus early, with the crop backward,
' j they will be likely to destroy the whole ol
1 the cotton crop on the sea islands if the
weather should be wet and cool."
3 ? The Aiken Journal of the 25th states thai
1! a case of some interest was tried in that towr
> I on the 19th instant. It was an action in
, which Wilcox, Gibbs & Co. sued the South
Carolina Railroad for the value of Bix bags of
guano, which they alleged was lost through
the negligence of the road. The important
' question was, when did the responsibility of
, the railroad cease ? The jury decided that if
the consignee failed to remove it in a reasonable
time after being notified of its arrival, it
remained at the depot at the assignee's risk.
The decision was in favor of the defendant.
? The people of Camden are excited on the
subject of the Cheraw and Chester Railroad,
which they fear will cut off a considerable
portion of the trade of that town. A corres1
pondent in the last number of the Camden
Journal thinks that a ra'lroad from that place
to Chester will avoid this evil. The route
would not exceed fifty miles, is on the right
bank of the Waterec and Catawba rivers to
the mouth of Rocky creek at Rocky Mount,
thence up Rocky Creek to Chester. It
would develop a fine section of country.
? The Chester Reporter of last week says:
"A change of schedule ou the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad went into operation
on last Saturday, by which, time is
given to passengers goiug South to get breakfast
at the Nicholson Hotel iu this town. We
are glad on Mrs. Nicholson's account that the
change has been made, and the traveling
public has great reason to congratulate itself
on the arrangement, as there is no eating
house from Maine to Texas, nor from New
York to San Francisco, where the weary wayfarer
can more surely and more satisfactorily
refresh himself."
? The Rock Hill Lantern of Saturday last,
says: "On Tuesday evening last,in this town,
two men by the name of Steele and Gordon,
become engaged in a quarrel. Abusive language
was made use of by both parties. Gordon
used improper language about Steele's
wife, when Steele "went for him" with a pocket
knife. The throat was the place of attack,
and had the knife penetrated an eighth of an
inch deeper, a funeral would have been the
consequence. Drs. Edwards and Johnston
sewed up the wound and Gordon went his
way rejoicing. Steele gave security for his
appearance before the Trial Justice and went
home."
T?I - TJ 1 C 1??4 o?tro .
? j. ne vnesier JLXcjjvrivr ui just ?CCR oajo.
"A meeting of the tax-payers of Baton Ronge
Towsnhip was held on Saturday last at the
store of Mr. H. C. Brawley, at Carinel Hill,
for the purpose of levying a tax for school
purposes. The meeting was largely attended
by white men, but only a few of the negroes
of the township were present. After discussion
it was resolved to levy a tax of fifteen
hundred dollars?to be collected on the taxable
polls in the township, instead of by an assessment
on the taxable property, as is usually
the case. The trustees were empowered to
use the fund so raised for educational purposes
as to their judgments might seem best. The
Board of Trustees of Baton Rouge township
is composed of Mr. H. C. Brawley, Columbus
Crauford and Alexander Robins?the two
last are colored."
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? S. W. Craig, a worthy citizen of Gaston
county, died at South Point on the 20th in stant.
? Warren Kirkpatrick, charged with burning
the barn of A. G. Raid, of Mecklenburg
county, has been acquitted.
? The engineers of the Fayetteville and
Florence railroad arc rapidly surveying and
locating the line of the proposed road.
? The Hickory Press says that Messrs.
Ellis & Shuford will soon erect a cotton factory
on the Catawba river near that town.
? Hob. Daniel W. Yoorhees, of Indiana,
has accepted the invitation to deliver the annual
address before the State Agricultural Society
at the approaching Fair.
? The interest on the State debt, including
that on special tax bonds, will, on the 1st of
October next, the close of the fiscal year,
amount to the enormous sum of $8,038,904.15.
? A farmer in Halifax countyhas one thousand
acres of low land in clover. An acre
will yield a ton, which is worth $30. After
a good stand of clover is obtained, it requires
but little or no labor.
? A white man, named Penuer, killed a
negro at Oliver's, in Gaston county, on Friday
of last week. Penner attempted to escape,
but was pursued and captured in Charlotte.
? The Fair of the Carolinas, to be held in
Charlotte, will begin on the 25th of November
and continue for five days. The Observer
says great preparations are being made to
have it the best and most attractive fair that
has yet been held in Charlotte.
? The musical genius of Jackson Massey, a
blind boy of Gaston county, is attracting considerable
attention. He is only ten years of
age, and the skill with which he performs on
the piano is said to be remarkable. From
the Observer we learn that he gave two successful
concerts in Charlotte last week.
? The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the North-Western North Carolina Railroad
Company was held in Greensboro on the
24th. The road is completed to Salem. Col.
A. S. Buford was elected President, and was
authorized to take immediate steps to extend
the road through the Yadkin valley to Tennessee.
? The Milton Chronicle says a threshing
machine belonging to Sidney Lea, of Caswell
county, exploded on Saturday last, while running
at a rapid rate, and knocked down eight
men, two of whom were wounded, it is thought,
mortally. The teeth of the cylinder were
sent through the roof of the barn with great
violence.
? One uight last week a drunken negro
named Lamb was committed to the Robeson
county jail in Lumberton, for disorderly conduct
on the streets, and next morning was
found dead. Upon the examination of the
other prisoners, it was ascertained that Lamb
was murdered by his room-mate, a white man
named Baxter. No cause is assigned for the
deed.
? On Saturday of last week, while John
Ewing and his son John, who were engaged
in digging a well near Charlotte, were preparing
to make a blast at a depth of 38 feet
below the surface, a premature explosion took
place, hurling the men, with thousands of
fragments of rock, from the bottom of the
well into the air above. Both men were seriously
injured.
? Speaking of the survey of the proposed
Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge railroad,
the Hickory I'ress says: "The distance from
Yorkville to Lenoir by dirt road is 821 miles.
The first line surveyed by Col. Gardner for
the narrow gauge road makes the distance 82
mi I ps?sitvimr J mile. The line now beine
i surveyed will shorten the distance three or
: four miles or more. We understand Colonel
Gardner says that for several miles between
, the Catawba river and Lenoir the cross ties
? can be laid without any grading. I)r. Dave*
! ga estimates the cost of buildiug and equipping
the road at 87000 per mile. The pros;
pects of this road grow brighter every day.
i There i3 manifestly a change of sentiment in
i its favor."
NEWS OF THE DAY.
? Au inceudiary fire in Norfolk, Virginia,
on Saturday morning, destroyed property to
the amount of 8150,000.
? It may be interesting to know that a cloth,
saturated with chloroform, applied to the
wound, is a sure cure for snake bite.
? Dispatches from central and eastern Texas
give favorable accounts of the growing
crops. In Mississippi and Louisiana the crop
is reported as doing well. From Arkansas
the reports are also encouraging.
? A gang of disguised robbers threw a train
off the track of the Chicago and Rock Islaud
Pacific railroad on the night of the 21st, near
Adair, and robbed the express safe. The
AwmlnAAw Kn f ?*o I n tiro a 1* i 11 nA
Ui wue ii urn nuo i\ai<wv?*
? The value of flour and wheat shipments
from California to the eastern States and
foreign ports for the year ending June 20th,
was $19,250,000. The value at the end ol
the wheat crop last year was $25,000,000.
? A. T. Stewart, the New York dry goods
merchant, is on a visit to Europe. Before
leaving, he made his will. The value of his
real estate alone foots up to the extraordinary
sura of one hundred millions.
? The Postmaster General has awarded the
contract for a mail between Charleston and
Havana, via Key West. The contractors will
establish a line of steamers between these
points.
? Late advices from Massachusetts represent
that the anti-Butler portion of the Republican
party is formidable, and his prospects
of either receiving the nomination or
being elected are growing weaker.
? The New York World says : "Henry A.
Wise, who hung John Brown, has written another
letter declaring himself a Republican
aud endorsing Grant." And the man under
whom Wirz was a subordinate is an appointee
of Grant. So we go.
? A farmer living near Mount Vernon,
Kentucky, attempted to wreck a train on the
Ohio and Mississippi railroad last Saturday,
giving as his reason therefor that sparks from
the engine had burned his fence. He was arrested
and put in jail.
? The New Orleans Picayune, which, at
the beginning of the movement, favored the
unification scheme, now pronounces it a failure,
ascribing the failure to the universal allegiance
of the colored people to the Republican
party. The opposition to the present
State government is more demoralized and
weaker than ever before.
? At a farmers' meeting in Kansas, the other
day, the following preamble and resolution
were adopted in reference to the Congressional
"back pay grab "Whereas, D. P. Lowe,
our Congressman, supported the bill; Resolved,
That we demand that he resign his seat
in Congress, and that his place be filled by an
honest man instead of a thief."
? On Monday morning last, an engineer on
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad losing control
of his engine on a down-grade, forty-five
miles west of Cumberland, his train dashed
away at a speed of forty miles an hour. It
struck a freight train and demolished twenty
cars loaded with cotton, corn and tobacco,
scattering the coutents of the cars all over the
track. The engineer and two passengers
were killed, and several others were seriously
wpunded.
? It is a remarkable fact that while outside
of the United States there are about sixty
thousand miles of railroad in the entire world,
there are in the United States alone nearly
seventy thousand miles. If anything could
illustrate the magnificent extent of the American
Republic and the vast strides it is
making toward a complete development of its
domain, this fact would seem to do it. The
earnings of the railroads in five States alone,
were last year $260,000,000.
? The speculation in cotton in New York
has had the undesirable effect of bringing that
article in considerable quantities back from
England to enable speculators to meet their
engagements. The steamship City of Chester,
of the Inman line, that arrived at New York
on Sunday last, brought some 350 bales
American cotton from Liverpool. It is understood
that the cotton was imported for
some party in the "short interest," and is to be
delivered on July contracts. About 1,500
bales, in addition to the above, are about leaving
England for New York.
Tiie Chester and Lenoir Railroad.?
A. H. Davega, Esq., President of the Chester
and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad Company,
reached home on Tuesday morning, aud
brings with him the most cheering accounts
of the prospects of the enterprise over which
he presides. The survey was completed to
Lenoir more than ten days ago, and the corps
has reached as far as Lincolnton in surveying
another line back to Yorkville. As soon as
this is concluded the final survey for the location
of the road will begin. The route surveyed
on the way to Lenoir is said to be not
only entirely practicable, but a most eligible
one for the construction of a railroad at very
small cost. There are no heavy grades on
the whole route, with the exception of the two
last miles entering Lenoir, and these are not
such as to occasion any serious difficulty; and
it is said that there are a good many miles
that will require no grading at all to prepare
them for the track. The statement that the
route surveyed ma^es the distance longer
than it is by the wagon road, is pronounced
by President Davega to be entirely erroneous.
The distance from Yorkville to Lenoir is
eighty miles both by the survey and by the
dirt road. Catawba and Caldwell counties
vote in August on the question of subscribing
?100,000 each, to the capital stock of the
road. In Caldwell, the people are all of one
mind on the question and the subscription
i_. ?j- _i 4 .t ? ,j:
win oc imiue uiiuusl wiuiuuu u uiggcui/mg
vote. In Catawba there has been considerable
opposition to the county subscription, but
it has greatly abated of late, and there is very
little doubt entertained of the proposition
being favorably voted upon by the people.?
Chester Reporter, 24th inst.
Relative to Fruit Distilleries.?Commissioner
Douglass has just issued a circular
to collectors instructing them that, before fruit
distillers of their respective districts commence
operations for the season, they are requested
to comply with instructions being forwarded.
Among other things it is ordered that the
I bond of each distiller must be approved on or
| before the day of commencing work, and un!
der no circumstances should any distiller be
j allowed to commence before such approval.
The true survey of each distillery must be
made and delivered to the distiller on or be!
fore the day of commencing operations.
! Where a distiller wishes to run on an old sur|
vey, collectors will notify the commissioner of
; the fact, together with the date of such surj
vey. In case of a change in the ownership
of the distillery, when the distiller wishes to
I continue operations under the capacity as surveyed
before the change, the collector will forward
to the internal revenue bureau his expense
of the survey upon which the former
owner operated said distillery. As soon as
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the correct date can he ontainea, ne win ior|
ward also notice showing the date of his apI
proval of each distiller's bond in his district,
together with a copy of survey registered on
form 26 and notice on form 274.
I They will instruct distillers to make their
monthly reports on form 15 promptly and
j with care, showing the time operated each day
, correctly ; also the quantity and character of
! materials used, &c\
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
T. M. Dobson <fe Co.?Bargains! Bargains!!
Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient.
John G. Steele, Executor?Application for Discharge.
j B. D. Townsond, President and Superintendent?
Cheraw and Darlington Railroad.
A. F. McDonnell?Fair Warning.
W. B. Gulick, Columbia, S. C.?New National ,
Rank.
James L. Strain, Etta Jane, Union county, S. ('.? !
Phonographic Short-Hand.
! Win. Gorman, Proprietor?Columbia Hotel.
PARDONS RECOMMENDED.
By a late Washington despatch we learn i
, that pardon has betn recommended in the |
cases of Felix Dover, Stephen Spann and I
William Scruggs, convicted of kukluxing. i
i The first named is from this county; the
others from Spartanburg.
I
SENT TO THE PENITENTIARY.
On Monday morning last, the Sheriff of;
i York county forwarded to the penitentiary, j
Wes. Thomasson, negro, convicted of assault!
and battery and sentenced for one year ; and
I Perry Douglas, negro, convicted of larceny,
and sentenced for three months. Pending the
i consideration of a peti ion for the pardon of
| George Welsh, convicted of manslaughter and
I senteuced for two years, the State authorities
have ordered the Sheriff to detain him in the
jail at this place until further orders.
PERSONAL.
Dr. R. G. Redd, who has beeu acting as
Post Surgeon with the troops at this place for
something more than a year, has been relieved,
and will proceed to Washington in a few days.
The geutleraanly deportment and unassuming
manners of Dr. Redd, have won for him many
friends in our community, and we are pleased
to learn that there is a probability of his permanently
locating iu Yorkville and engaging
iu the practice of his profession. Assistant
Surgeon W. H. King, U. S. A., the successor
of Dr. Redd, has already arrived at this
post.
THE CIRCUIT COURT.
The recent special term of the Circuit Court
adjourned on Friday evening last, after transacting
a great deal of busines: and ridding
the docket of many suits which had been
pending for several years. Judge Mackey is
prompt in the discharge of the duties of presiding
officer of the Court, and as we have
had occasion to remark heretofore, discharges
his duties in a manner satisfactory to counsel
and clients.
At the time of closing our last report, the
suit of F. M. Walker, surviving Administrator,
vs. Mijamin R. Smith and others, brought
on a note given for the purchase of a slave in
- December, 1862, was progressing. The case
was decided in favor of the defendants. Motion
was made for a new trial, which was
granted.
Besides several cases disposed of on action in
debt, the following are of more general interest:
Reuben Dulin vs. L. Lineberger & Co., involving
a claim for cotton sold defendants.
.Quit nao KrAiirrtif tn rfionwpr the value of eicrhf.
JUI K H ug Uivuguv WV t VVVf V* VMW * M?uv V*
bales at 31 cents per pouud. The verdict of
the jury was for but 17 cents, the price at the
time payment was tendered.
F. M. Galbraith vs. Stowe & Martin. For
hire of slave in 1865. Judgment for plaintiff
for the sum of 8115 and interest from January
1st, 1866.
Perry & Co., of Albany, N. Y., vs. J. W.
Neal. Suit for claim of 8172. Judgment
for 88.55.
Lieut F. F. Whitehead vs. Wra. Gorman,
proprietor of Columbia Hotel. Suit brought
to recover value of a valise and contents lost
at the said hotel. Judgment in favor of
plaintiff for 8141.50.
Charlotte R. and B. J. Cureton, Executors,
vs. A. E. Hutchison. Suit brought to recover
the rental money for lease of the Howie or
Stockton gold mine in Uuioii county, N. C.
This was a long and tedious case, occupying
near a day and a half in the hearing. Judgment
in favor of plaintiffs for 84,481.64.
The motion to grant a new trial to S. B. Hall,
convicted for official misconduct, was overruled,
and he was sentenced to imprisonment in the
county jail for twelve months and to pay a
6ne of one thousand dollars. Counsel for defendant
gave notice of appeal to the Supreme
Court.
Up to the time of adjourument, Judge
Mackey had not announced his decision in
the railroad injunction case.
RIOT AT FORT MILL.
For several days rumors have been iu circulation
to the effect that a party of negroes
had been making threats and demonstrations
of a serious character against the citizens of
Fort Mill; but as the various reports were
conflicting, we were unable last week to pro
cure a correct version of the affair. The
gang were committed to the county jail on
Sunday evening last; and we learn that the
difficulty originated on Saturday the 19th
instant, in an attempt by the policeman of
Fort Mill to arrest a negro named Chap.
McKinna, who was drunk and disorderly.
McKinna resisted the policeman and evaded
arrest, but not without receiving several
blows from the policeman's club. This so
exasperated the negro that after leaving the
village, he organized a band of ten comrades,
who, armed with axes, picks and perhaps a
few guns, returned to the vicinity of the town,
and on Monday "went into camp," notifying
the citizens and the authorities that they intended
to have revenge for the treatment their
leader, Chap. McKinna, had received on the
Saturday previous.
There being no acting trial justice in that
township, application was made to C. J. Pride,
trial justice at Rock Hill, for a warrant,
which was granted and placed in the hands
of a negro named Francis Davie, to serve.
The negro constable was accompanied by M.
I L. Owens, one of the members of the Legislature
from this county, and in due course of
time they returned from their mission with
the statement that they had seen the negroes,
who had dispersed, promising to create no
further disturbance. This course proving unsatisfactory
to the citizens of Fort Mill, and,
as we understand, the threats being continued,
on Thursday last the fucts were communica- j
ted to Sheriff Glenn and also to Justice Pride,!
| who was in this place attending Court. Judge j
Afonlrmr liti/J alon loomed nf tVlP ftflfrtir. flnd he
j A?i.uvavj IKIVI WlOV AVMtuwwt v? ...w
j directed the trial justice to return at once j
, and command his constable to make the ar-1
J rests as ordered in the warrant; to bring the
I offenders up for trial; and if, after iuvestiga!
tion, the magistrate should deem the offense :
j of a nature to justify further proceedings, to j
j bind the guilty parties over to Court. Ac
I cordingly, the arrests were again ordered to ,
be made, and on Saturday last the case was
fully investigated by trial justice Pride, who
bound the rioters over to Court, aud in dei
# '
j fault of bail, as above stated, they were committed
to the jail in this place on Sunday
last. The names of the offenders are Chap.!
j McKinna, Luu McKinna, Jim Crockett, Anthony
Springs, Lewis Webb, Isaac Robinson,
j Eli Roddy, Allison Faulkner, Chas. Watson,
I Hiram Roddy and Jack Hutchinson.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Fire in Baltimore.
A little after 10 o'clock on Friday last,
a disastrous fire broke out in the planing mill
of Joseph Thomas & Co., on the south-side
of Clay street, between Liberty and Park
streets, and raged with great fury until 4
o'clock in the afternoon, before it was possible
to check or get under control the devouring
flames.
Eight blocks of fine buildings were burned.
The loss is estimated at 8800,000. Notwithstanding
the intensity of the flames and
the natural excitement incident thereto, no
panic prevailed, and it is not believed a single
life was lost. The insurance agents estimate
their loss at from 8500,000 to 8600,000 which
they claim will not affect the solvency of any
companies having risks in the burnt district.
mi. - ir? VI -n il.
me mi-mu.Y i rusecntiuus.
A Washington dispatch of the 24th conveys
the following information as to the kuklux
prosecutions now pending in this State,
and the chances for pardon of those who have
been convicted and sentenced:
A delegation of prominent officials from
South Carolina, consisting of Hon. W. D.
Porter, Gen. J. B. Kershaw, R. M. Sims and
S. A. Durham, accompanied by Assistant Secretary
Sawyer, of the Treasury, waited upon
Attorney-General Williams, requesting that
all proceedings in that State with reference to
the outrages of the ku-klux klan besuspended,
and urging the pardons of those already confined
in the Albany penitentiary. They represent
that as an organization the klan has
ceased to exist iu the State: and that a len
ient policy on the part of the Government will
tend to restore peace and order.
Attorney-General Williams informed them
that it was the policy of the Government to
prosecute only aggravated eases?orders having
already been given to that effect; and
that as soon as the President was fully satisfied
that peaceable citizens would be protected in
their property and life, a general suspension
of the prosecutions would be desirable. lie
also informed the delegation that many kuklux
prisoners had been pardoned, and pardons
would be issued to the others ; the most
aggravated cases being detained until the last.
The delegation was much pleased with the encouragement
given by the Attorney-General.
The delegation will visit Long Branch, and
have an interview with President Grant.
The delegation, after reachiugLong Branch,
had an interview with the President, who
said he was in favor of pursuing a very liberal
policy towards all convicts, except those
guilty of violent crimes; and those charged
and probably gnilty of similar crimes. It is
understood the President will address a letter
of instructions immediately to Attorney-General
Williams in pursuance of this understanding.
The Statesville Railroad War.
A decidedly new phase was given the
controversy pending between the old and the
newly-elected board of directors of the States
Mi- __ * T j r?i -d~:i
Vine, ur AimuLiu, iciiucsaec turn uuiu J.vanroad,
on Tuesday of last week, by the new
President taking possession of the road in a
somewhat novel manner. The Charlotte Observer
of Wednesday gives the following particulars
:
A meeting of the McDowell Board was
held in this city on Monday. At that meeting
Col. S. A. Sharpe of Statesville and Capt.
S. B. Alexander of Charlotte, two of the Directors,
were authorized to ask for possession
of the road, and if they were refused, to take
possession of it. Col. Johnston was not in the
city, and Capt. Alexander made application
to Mr. J. J. Gormley, the Superintendent, for
the road. Mr. Gormley stated that he had
no right to turn over the road, as he had received
express instructions from Col. Johnston
to hold on to it.
The train left for Statesville that afternoon
just as usual. Col. Sharpe was on board, as
were also an extra conductor and an engineer.
Yesterday morning when Mr. J. A. C. Gruber,
the regular eugineer, went to his engine,
preparatory to running out, he found a strange
man in the cab. When Capt Hand, the regular
conductor came, he found his occupation
gone, and a man there ready to take his place.
Col. Sharpe soon arrived, and asked for possession
of the train. Capt. Hand surrendered
it very gracefully, under protest, however.
Col. Sharpe then told Mr. Gruber that he
had an engineer there to take charge of the
engine, but if he (Gruber) recoguized the authority
of "the powers that be," he could continue
in his present position. Mr. Gruber
"recognized," and ran the engine into Charlotte
as usual.
Tkn nf a lotor /Ia fo cava
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"Mr. McDowell is now in full possession of
the road and having it run under his direction.
The new administration do not propose making
any changes in the general operations of
the rcaa. In a conversation with us on yesterday,
Mr. McDowell alluded to a rumor
which has gained some currency, that he is
under the influence of the Southern Security
Company, and that through the influence of
that company he was elected to the presidency
of the road. He stigmatized the report as
false in every particular, and authorized us to
say for him that he is not governed in his actions
or feelings by any man or combination
of men, and that any report to that effect is
without foundation in fact. He says he proposes
to manage the road in the interest of the
stockholders?those who built it, and for the
good of Statesville and Charlotte, Iredell and
Mecklenburg, aud not in the interest of any
individual, ring or combination. Mr. McDowell's
simple word is an ample guarantee
of good faith among gentlemen to whom he is
known."
The Crop Prospect.
On our first page, this week, we present
a complete summary of the condition of the
cotton crop throughout the Cotton States,
which purports to have been made up from
reliable and trustworthy sources. The following
information, collated from different sources
of later date, shows the general condition of
the grain and cotton crops in this State, Flor- j
ida, Georgia and Alabama :
Latest reports from Florida state that the
crops are generally two weeks behind last
season. Three weeks ago the heavy rains
throughout the State caused much grass, but
the planters were overcoming it, when the
rain began again last week, doing great damage.
The caterpillars have made their appearance
throughout middle and west Florida,
but have as yet done little harm. The next
two weeks will determine the extent of the injury
from this source. Experiments made
with Paris green as a caterpillar destroyer,
have proved highly successful.
The corn crop is reported good in Alabama.
Cotton is looking much better than four or
five weeks ago, and if storms do not interfere !
the crop in the State will be larger than last j
year. The worms have made their appear-;
ance much earlier than usual, and are reported !
on every plantation. They have done little j
damage, and the mischief, if any, will come
from the third crop worms, which are expect-;
ed three weeks hence. Cotton is three weeks
later than last year, and the indications are,
all things considered, that the yield will not
be so great. The corn crop is bad on low
lands in consequence of early heavy rains,
which drowned the grains.
Uplands will produce an average crop in
Georgia. Cotton reports are conflicting for
southwestern Georgia. They indicate, though,
a good crop. The weed is small but healthy
and well iruiiea. me crop is uuuui us euny
in this section as last year. Middle and eastern
Georgia crops are a good deal later, but
much better than some time since, and au average
yield may be expected. Parts of eastern
Georgia have suffered severely from
drought, but no general damage is sustained.
For the past few days heavy rains have been
general throughout the State, and still seem to
prevail, which may improve the crops.
Though it is now impossible to ascertain to
, what extent the caterpillar has existed, about
an average crop will be secured, and no serious
damage is expected from this quarter. The
corn crop is generally reported tine, and the
other cereals have turned out well. A good
deal of cotton has been abandoned on account
of the grass.
But few reports come from South Carolina,
i The heavy aud continuous rains in the early
summer have caused an abandonment of cotton
on some lands, though not to anv consid
erable extent. The crops are backward here,
as in Alabama, but later accounts are more
encouraging, and an average crop will perhaps
! be made.
Corrmpondeiice of the New* and Courier.
! TREASURER CARDOZO INTERVIEWED.
Columbia, July 22.
Treasurer Cardozo and Comptroller Hoge
returned from New York on Saturday last.
As there have been various speculations in'
dulged in as to the object of their visit, and a
pretty general suspiciou that it was connected
' in some way with the movement of the bondholders
to force the payment of the interest
upon their bonds, through the Supreme Court,
I concluded yesterday afternoon that it might
be well worth my while to call upon the
treasurer and see what he had to say upon the
subject of his trip to New York, and also to
get his side of the question as to the exhaustion
of the funds in the treasury, about which
there have been very grave complaints. With
this object in view, I betook me to the Statehouse,
and, when there, sought the office of
the treasurer. Fortunately I found Mr. Cardozo
in. and disencairfid. and. fitatincr to him
, 0"0 '? ? ?? o w"'
that I desired to see hini alone for a short
while, he very politely invited me into his private
office, the sanctum sanctorum of the treasury,
which is in rear of the room where the
books and records are kept, and where the ordinary
business of the office is transacted.
WHY THE TREASURER. WENT TO NEW YORK.
Mr. Cardozo, I said, after taking a chair,
I have called to "interview" you a little if you
have no objections, upon some matters of public
interest
Cardozo. Well, sir, I amatyourservice. I
am glad of every opportunity to give the people
of the State information as to the transactions
of my office, in which I know they very
naturally feel a very grave interest, and for
which, accofdingl}', I feel a very grave responsibility.
Correspondent In the first place I would
be glad to know if your recent visit to New
York was upon business connected with your
office, and if so, what business? You are
aware I presume that your departure to New
York has been the cause of some comment,
such as that you are connected with the speculation
in the bonds, &c.
Cardozo. Yes, I have noticed such a report
in some of the letters to the News and Courier
from this place. But there is no truth in it.
I have nothing whatever to do with any speculation
in State securities, aud my recent trip to
New York was purely on account of my own
private affairs. I had some private matters
to look after, principally in Washington,
and after I had finished that I ran on and
spent a few days in New York.
NO MARKET FOR 8TATE BONDS.
Correspondent. Is there anything doing in
our State bonds in New York?
Cardozo. Nothing whatever, as far as I could
learn. The State's credit is entirely gone,
and the bonds are as flat as they can be. As
you remarked in one of your recent letters it
would be a fool's errand for myself or any one
else to go to New York to raise money on account
of the State. I do not think there are
any sales of our bonds at all. No one comes
to buy them even at the low figures at which
they are quoted, and the holders are simply
keeping them in the hope that something may
turn up by which they may be able to realize
something for them.
NO CONNECTION WITH KIMPTON.
Correspondent. What is Kimpton doing
as financial agent of the State ? Have you
any dealings with him ?
Cardozo. There has been no busiuess done
between Mr. Kimpton and myself. I have
neither paid him nor received from him any
money at all; and so far as my administration
is concerned, he has had nothing to do with
the finances of the State. He has no bonds of
the State, or at least claims to have none.
ANOTHER BIG STEAL.
Correspondent What has he done with the
bonds purchased on account of the jinking
fund, the agricultural college scrip, and the
six hundred thousand dollars of the bonds of
the Blue Ridge Railroad, which he held for
the State ?
Cardozo. My information is that every one
of them was hypothecated for loans made in
Parker's term, and the whole of the one hundred
and ninety-one thousand dollars in the
hnmls nf the StAtc. in which the ucrieultural
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land scrip, or rather the proceeds from the
sale of it, was invested, together with the two
hundred thousand dollars of bonds purchased
with the proceeds of the sales of the assets of
the State by the sinking fund commission are
a total loss to the Stnte, unless the officials
who illegally disposed of them can be held
personally responsible.
THE BOGUS CONVERSION BONDS.
Correspondent. You say there is nothing
doing iu our State bonds in New York. Can
you explain to me how it is that there is such
disparity between the value of the January
and July and the April and October bonds?
I notice in the New York papers that the January
and July bonds are quoted at 15, and
the April and October bonds at 22 and 23.
Cardozo. I have been struck with this seemingly
unreasonable disparity myself, and I
cannot account for it except upon the supposition
that by January and July bonds are
really meant the conversion bonds. All of
the latter have interest payable in January
and July. But all January and July bonds
are not conversion bonds; for there are, I
know, the first $200,000 of land commission
bonds, the bonds issued for funding the bills
of the Bank of the State, and perhaps some
others of the new bonds, the interest of which
is also payable in January and July.
Correspondent. Speaking of these conversion
bonds, what do you think of the suit of
the taxpayers to have them declared void and
cancelled ?
Cardozo. As to whether the effort to relieve
the State of thtm will succeed or not, of course
I cannot presume to say. But I certainly
hope that it will succeed, and shall watch the
progress of the suit with great interest, and
gladly give what aid I can to its successful
prosecution. You kuow, said the treasurer,
blandly smiling, that I consider myself to be
to a great extent the originator of the suit
If you examine the complaint of the taxpayers
you will observe that it is founded almost
entirely upon the facts brought first to
public notice by myselt in a letter published
by me last year, in which, I think, I showed
very conclusively that at least six million dollars
of the conversion bonds were issued without
authority of law.
TIIE WAY THE MONEY GOES.
Correspondent. Well, Mr. Cardozo, there is
another matter about which I would be glad
to have some explanation from you. There
has been a great deal of grumbling because of
a want of money in the treasury. Can you
tell me why it is that you have no money to
defray the current expenses of the government ?
Cardozo. I shall be exceedingly glad to
talk with you upon the subject and to have
you publish what I say. I know there have
been a great many complaints, and a great
many misrepresentations too, made about my
i failure to pay claims presented here. When
: you came in I was engaged in collecting data
for the very purpose of publishing a letter in
some of the papers explaining why it is that
our funds are exhausted. If you will publish
! what I say it will save me the trouble of writing
a letter myself, and I will feel very much
j obliged to you. I am anxious, and shall alI
ways be, to lay before the people every trans